Sino-Tibetan etymology : List with all references

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rŭŋ / *rŭk (~-ŏ-)

Meaning: thunder

Chinese: 隆 *ruŋ thunder, sound of thunder.

Tibetan: ãbrug thunder.

Comments: Trung dǝ³-rǝ̆ŋ² thunder.

Chinese characters :

Character: 隆

Modern (Beijing) reading: lóng

Preclassic Old Chinese: ruŋ

Classic Old Chinese: ruŋ

Western Han Chinese: rǝuŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: rǝuŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: lɨuŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: luŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: luŋ

Middle Chinese: lüŋ

English meaning : noble, excellent

Russian meaning[s]: 1) высокий; возвышенный; большой; 2) щедрый; 3) процветающий; процветание; 4) изобилие, избыток; 5) Лун (фамилия)

Comments: Also used for a homonymous *ruŋ 'thunder, sound of thunder'. For *r- cf. Xiamen liɔŋ², Fuzhou lüŋ², Chaozhou loŋ².

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 170

Four-angle index: 401

Karlgren code: 1015 f

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Chinese Dialects :

Number: 1561

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 隆

MC description : 通合三平東來

ZIHUI: 7127 2638

Beijing: luŋ 12

Jinan: luŋ 12

Xi'an: loŋ 12

Taiyuan: luŋ 1

Hankou: noŋ 12

Chengdu: noŋ 12

Yangzhou: lɔuŋ 12

Suzhou: loŋ 12

Wenzhou: loŋ 12

Changsha: noŋ 12

Shuangfeng: naŋ 12; nǝn 12

Nanchang: luŋ 31

Meixian: luŋ 12

Guangzhou: luŋ 12

Xiamen: liɔŋ 12

Chaozhou: loŋ 12

Fuzhou: lyŋ 12

Shanghai: loŋ 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: liuŋ 12

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